Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" received 13 Critics' Choice Movie award nominations from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, it was announced Tuesday. Its nominations include best picture, best director, best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, and best supporting actor and actress for Tommy Lee Jones and Sally Field.

It led all other films including "Les Miserables," which received 11 nominations, and "Silver Linings Playbook," with 10. | Dec. 11, 2012»Read Full Blog Post

Ed Sheeran, pictured here performing at the Pabst Theater Sept. 11, 2012, has released a new single, "Sing," that differs dramatically from his sensitive style. Photo by Melissa Miller.| April 9, 2014»Read Full Blog Post

The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America. By John F. Kasson. Norton. 320 pages. $27.95.

They used to call Hollywood the dream factory for a reason: It cranked out a steady stream of celebrity that fed the American psyche.

Yeah, the movie studios in that so-called golden age made some great stuff, but their intent was to turn out product — movies and movie stars alike — that audiences would buy and connect with in a way that would keep them coming back for more. | April 9, 2014»Read Full Article

With several films set to debut this year, including such disparate turns as a taxidermist villainess, mysterious amnesiac and an actress-turned-princess, Nicole Kidman will again become a familiar face in theaters.

While maintaining a steady presence in Hollywood for more than two decades, the 46-year-old Academy Award winner has been focusing more in recent years on raising her two daughters with husband and country star Keith Urban — away from the spotlight in Nashville, Tenn. | April 9, 2014»Read Full Article

A two-story restaurant building with a bold, contemporary design will be built on the northwest corner of Cedarburg and Mequon roads, serving as an iconic landmark building for the Mequon Town Center.

The restaurant building will be one of five buildings in the Town Center development, which will also feature Colectivo Coffee Roasters, a new American Legion post, 40 luxury apartments and a variety of other commercial tenants. | April 9, 2014»Read Full Article

The WWE said Hellwig died Tuesday. Scottsdale, Ariz., police spokesman Sgt. Mark Clark said he collapsed while walking with his wife to their car at a hotel, and was pronounced dead at a hospital. | April 9, 2014»Read Full Article

Wauwatosa officials have backed plans for Camp Bar, a second location for the popular Shorewood bar with an elaborate North Woods decor and twists on Wisconsin’s beloved old-fashioned.

The Plan Commission on Monday and the Common Council on Tuesday approved Paul and Natalia Hackbarth’s proposal to open Camp Bar at 6600 W. North Ave. The first, which Details magazine named one of the country’s best new bars in early 2013, is at 4044 N. Oakland Ave. in Shorewood. To accommodate the crush of customers there, Camp Bar expanded into neighboring space less than six months after its opening, adding seating, a second bar and a fireplace. | April 9, 2014»Read Full Blog Post

Updike wrote "The Sea's Green Sameness," more a rumination than a story, on his extended 1960 visit to Anguilla in the British Virgin Islands, where he was soaking up the sun in search of relief for his psoriasis. The New Yorker declined this piece, so Updike published it in New World Writing 17, the literary magazine in paperback format co-edited by his former editor Stewart Richardson. | April 9, 2014»Read Full Blog Post

How does one celebrate the birth of Shakespeare, one of the greatest playwrights who ever lived? With a production, of course. Marquette is bringing all the world to a stage this evening, it would seem. Scheduled to perform Shakespeare at a special event will be Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett; County Executive Chris Abele; historian John Gurda; Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra musicians; Julia Taylor of the Greater Milwaukee Committee; Mark Sabljak, Milwaukee Business Journal publisher; Joel Brennan, CEO of Discovery World and others.

Also this evening, Sayed Kashua, the writer and creator of a popular Isreali TV show "Arab Labor" and a notable writer working in Hebrew will screen two episodes of his award-winning series at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee this evening. The show focuses on a Palestinian journalist who is an Israeli citizen, an Arab caught between two worlds. It has been described as daringly exploring taboo subjects such as religious, cultural and political difference. Kashua, who also writes a satirical column for the Israeli paper Ha'aretz, will be available for discussion after the screening. The event is at 7:30 at UWM's Recital Hall, behind Mitchell hall and adjacent to the music building at 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd. | April 9, 2014»Read Full Blog Post